Claytonia perfoliata
Miner's-lettuce; Indian-lettuce
A member of the Portulacaceae, or Purslane Family
Inflorescenses with subtending "perfoliate" leaves.
Detail from next image below.
March 2003.
Photo copyright © Michael O'Brien
Used with permission.
Habit, growing among grasses.
March 2003.
Photo copyright © Michael O'Brien
Used with permission.
Inflorescence subtended by perfoliate leaf, much enlarged.
Photo copyright © by Dave Hildebrand.
Used with permission.
Habit, in bloom.
Along Manzanita Point Road, Pine Ridge.
4 April 2004.
Photograph copyright © Gena Zolotar.
Used with permission.
Habit, in bloom next to outhouse between campsites 12 and 13,
Coe Headquarters campground.
6 March 2005.
Photograph copyright © by Gena Zolotar.
Used with permission.
Habit.
This image shows all three types of leaves of this species:
All the yellowish-green leaves are Claytonia perfoliata, including those which are
narrow and grasslike, more mature leaves which flare at the end with a
spatula-shape, and the roundish, perfoliate leaf surrounding the flower.
Somewhere between Grizzly Gulch and Kelly Lake.
April 1995.
Photograph copyright © by Scott and Sandi Stevenson.
Used with permission.
Henry W. Coe State Park, California
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